Day 2 – to Josselin (105km)

At breakfast, we met up with a group of cyclists who were returning to St Malo after a week of cycling. One pair were on a tandem, with a blind stoker – the whole group had met through a “tandem's for the blind” organisation in Epsom. Their last stop had been Josselin (today's destination) and they thoroughly recommended it.

We had no guide for today's route, so we picked the most direct route using minor roads. Some were less minor than others and we are yet to work our how to tell which D-roads are quieter than others. Our route took us through working agricultural country and we passed through hundreds of fields of corn and wheat.

For the first time on our recent cycling journeys, we decided to grab some bread and salad for a picnic rather than eating at a café or pub. We enjoyed the French baguette, which we had strapped to our panniers.

Our final destination, Josselin, is a beautiful medieval town (oldest carved house dates from the 1500s) which has a huge, dominating Chateau overlooking the river Oust. The local tourist information office found us a wonderful B&B (“chambre d'hote”) and a stranger walked us to it while practising his English (turns out he was a close friend of the owners and got invited in for a drink). We have a huge room with a terrace overlooking a walled garden.